No, Curiosity is OFF due to the shutdown - Le Nouvel Observateur

UNEMPLOYMENT DATA. In 17 years, this is the first time it happens. The U.S. government has developed layoffs Tuesday, October 1 hundreds of thousands of civil servants, lack of budget agreement in Congress of the United States – is the famous “shutdown”

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the side of science and the environment, the ax fell net immediately. Museums and national parks have been closed since yesterday, Tuesday, October 1, until further notice. Twitter son and state agencies are at half mast, like that of NASA.

Curiosity, not yet unemployed technical

side Curiosity? Sciences et Avenir contacted the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of NASA, the “control room” California from which engineers drive the Mars rover (not continuous: the robot is also directed part of his time from Toulouse at CNES). Its representative Guy W. Webster reassured us: the robot has not been set to “off”. “JPL has a contractual status for NASA. Our staff therefore continue to work. And robot operations normally take place today.”

squabbles. Today … But for how long? “We’ll review the situation from one week to the next, as problem (on the budget agreement, Ed) has not been resolved.” The bickering between Democrats and Republicans in the Congress of the United States have therefore not yet reached in March, but it could eventually happen if American politicians play rotting.

front of the Lincoln Memorial, closed until further notice. Sipa

GRAPHICS. The site of the New York Times explained in an infographic, which state agents who remain at home the last time as the “shutdown” are. And notes with irony that on the side of NASA, the only occupants of the International Space Station will be forced to continue working as long as the crisis lasts.